When: March 11, 2010, 6:30 pmWhere: Arab American National Museum
13624 Michigan Ave.
Boston, MA N/A
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Winner, Grand Prix des Amériques, 1984 Montréal World Film Festival. Mayan Indian peasants, tired of being thought of as nothing more than brazos fuertes (manual laborers), are discovered by the Guatemalan army as they were organizing an effort to improve their working conditions and lot in life. After the army destroys their village and family and thousands of others during the longest and most brutal civil war in Latin American history, a brother and sister, teenagers who just barely escaped the massacre, decide they must flee to "El Norte.” Spanish and K’iche with English subtitles
